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Majestic Printing Works Ltd. distribution Leading Supermarkets and vendors in all major towns Sports Monthly Magazine is published by Alpha Sports P.O.Box 57386-00200 Nairobi Tel: 020-4349614/5/6 Email: [email protected] contents Website : www.sportsmonthly.wananchi.com Cover page: Oscar Pistorius in pensive mood during his trial St. John's win MTG tournament pg. 4 Kobus tells CK to stop coach turnover pg. 5 Cover story pg. 6 Rugby Sevens chances for Rio 2016 pg.14 Lesser sports stand little chance pg.16 Sahara's dividng factor pg.20 Kenyan cricket of freefall mode pg. 22 Sudanese football clubs own stadia pg. 28 Oguda says hooliganism on the decline pg. 30 Kenyan climber attempts Mt. Everest pg. 33 Last word pg. 34 APRIL - 2014 SPORTS MONTHLY 4 St. John's win MTG school tournament to Kwale County, which makes the schools in Kwale now also able to participate in MTG’s tournaments. It was clear from the start that St. John’s wanted to prolong their hold on the title. In the first half the young women from Kaloleni attacked successfully, scoring three times through Rehema Mwachiro (1) and Mwanahalima Adam (2). Although Waa tried to change the game in the second half it was again Mwanahalima who scored and made it clear to all football fans that St. John’s were the justified winners of the 2014 tournament. Mwanahalima also bagged the award of the top scorer of the tournament. Moving the Goalposts Secondary School tournament kicked off on February 15, 2014 with matches in Vitengeni, Kaloleni and Ganze. The annual event was held for St. John’s Secondary School – 0 win over Shangweni and 3 – 1 the 13th time in a row and hammered Kilifi Mixed and Ganze victory against Godoma. combined football, girls’ leadership Secondary schools in the semi-finals and peer led health education. during the Moving the Goalposts Expectations were high before (MTG) Secondary School tournament the final between the defending Thirty two girls’ school football teams that saw its finals being played on champions St. John’s and Waa Girls, participated this year during which March 1, 2014 at the MTG field. who are one of the best girls’ football 57 matches were played and 640 teams in the coast and who were participated in the games. All matches St. John’s beat Kilifi Mixed 6 –0 and participating for the first time in the and peer education sessions were Ganze Secondary 9 – 0 before taking tournament. organized by MTG’s young women; up Waa Girls in the final. Waa Girls staff and volunteers. found their way to the final with a 1 MTG has expanded its activities SPORTS MONTHLY APRIL - 2014 5 Kobus tells CK to stop high turnover of coaches Cricket Kenya has been told to stop “Kenya has been blamed for failing the high turnover of coaches to the to capitalise on the 2003 World Cup tournaments. national team to enhance continuity success. The plunge after an elating in the squad. Olivier Kobus, Cricket outing is not something new to cricket “It is saddening to note that Kenya Kenya General Manager who was and has also happened to Australia has lost participation in two World hired by the board last November, and South Africa in the past.” Cups; the ICC World Cup and the said coaches engaged to guide the Twenty20 World Cup and for the national team should be bonded on Kobus said such a drop is a country to make a re-entry, it must long term contracts for uninterrupted transitional period and occurs start molding a team now with a grounding. especially when good players all foresight of four years.” retire at the same time, and gave “You can’t keep on chopping and as an example the case of Australia Kobus appealled to the CK Board to changing coaches and expect good where Shane Warne, Steve Waugh work together as a team to uplift the results. There must be stability and and company left the national team game of cricket in the country. continuity in the team because every collectively. “Because I am new and with no coach comes along with his own past history and baggage in Kenyan style,” Kobus told Sports Monthly. “South Africa also suffered the same fate when Hansie Cronjie, cricket, I hope to bring fresh a “I this respect I am 100 percent Bob Woolmer alongside others left perspective into cricket in Kenya. To behind Steve Tikolo, who is presently together. However, the recovery achieve this, I have been gathering an interim coach cum player to be period depends on how fast a as much information as I can from confirmed as national coach owing to team can adjust and here is where various stakeholders." his experience and most importantly structures play an important part.” Kobus appreciates Cricket Kenya’s because he gets along well with the group efforts, saying in Kenya he players.” He said Kenya should nurture the Under-19 team as the squad of the has been given a car to find his way Kobus, a South African national, said future if the country hopes to rejoin around in whereas in Holand, he had molding a national team for a World participation in future World Cup to make do with a bicycle Cup outing is a process that takes as long as four years and not two months which he pointed out is a common occurrence in Kenya. “Good players don’t fall from trees. You do not shake a tree and they fall down. Good players are created through a system by way of good structures,” Kobus said. Kenya has had as many as four coaches in the last four years; an average of one coach per year. He said Kenya should overcome the post-2003 disappointment when Kenyan cricket was at the finest moment internationally when the country reached the World Cup semi- finals. APRIL - 2014 SPORTS MONTHLY 6 Oscar Pistorius and South Africa's culture of violence Mountain. From Table Mountain, the city radiates out in easy scatterings across the olive, woody slopes as they plunge into the sea. But Cape Town is also home to about two million of the city’s 3.5 million people who live to the east in tin and wood shacks and social housing built on the collection of estuary dunes and baking sand flats called the Cape Flats. Most of them are black. Cape Town's beautiful, affluent centre is merely the wholesome end of the wide spectrum that describes South Africa's culture and its defining national trait as the most unequal country on earth. In his 2008 book “Thin Blue”, for which he spent 350 hours on patrol with South Africa's police, Jonny Steinberg describes the relationship The Olympian and his girlfriend woman killed by gunshots, there between police and criminals as seemed to have the perfect romance was also the killer's defense: that part "negotiated settlement," part – until he killed her. Four days before Steenkamp was the tragic victim of "tightly choreographed" street theatre Oscar Pistorius shot her in the elbow, a racially splintered society in which in which criminals make a show hip and head through the bathroom fear and distrust are so pervasive that of running away and officers half- door at his home in Pretoria, Reeva citizens shoot first and ask questions heartedly pursue them. Steenkamp tweeted a message later. about violence against women in His thesis is that "the consent of South Africa.